Hey y'all,

When we say "don't stir up shit in other communities", we mean don't stir up shit in other communities. When shit stirring happens, there's generally a spike in membership requests here (yesterday, up 700% from each day the previous week or two) and then one of us mods has to track things down and ban people. Also, if you're going to request membership in a community, don't post elsewhere "I'm having a horrible day, so I hope they approve my membership at that fucking waste of a community so I can bitch someone out. :)" and then crybaby at us when we reject your membership. Basically, don't be fucking idiots and we can all play nice here.

- Your loving mods.

In case anyone is wondering what might be included in the definition of "don't be an asshole," it includes such things as completely unnecessary shout-outs.

Too bad, so sad, don't let the door hit you on the way out lwood.

Why the fucking fuck is this posted in punk_knitters? Then again, why is half the shit ever posted in there? At least when people post crochet stuff it's tangentially related. This is completely meaningless! With shitty photos to boot.

They might as well just name it punk_post_whatever_the_fuck_you_want community! The front page there now shows 20 posts. They include:
13 posts that are about knitting(questions, FOs), though this certainly does not mean they are good questions or FOs
7 questions=4 help me, 3 find me
6 FOs=a swatch (wtf?!); a batman sweater that's probably nice but poorly photographed; socks & hat; scarves & a sewn pillow; pin cushion & coffee cozy w/bonus pimp my blog plz be muh freind; frog hat
1 post about those stoopid knit cupcakes that I'm sure NO ONE has seen before despite the eleventeen times it's has been previously announced
2 OMG new KNITTY announcements
1 pimp my local knitting group
1 meme
1 video that I refuse to watch so I don't know if it is a song about knitting or what a really old video that includes yarnimation

So we have our first bannination since reopening the community.

Congratulations to robinhoodvandal for being an asshole!

Membership has been reopened.  We will only be evaluating new members to ensure that they are not sockpuppets or obvious trolls.

Posts are no longer moderated for current members.  New members will not be allowed to make any posts to the community for two weeks (but can comment) and will be set to unmoderated status once we feel that they grok what we're all about.

Have fun!

Edit: Damn, you people are fast!

As apis_mellifera said in the last admin post, if people couldn’t play nice we were going to do a massive weeding of membership. Sadly, people cannot play nice, so many of you are no longer members. We removed everyone who joined in the past two months, along with anyone we didn’t recognize as one who contributes to the community. There is now a membership freeze until the end of the month, at which time a method for reapplication will be put in place. It’s too bad we have to do this, but hopefully it will solve both the jackassery that’s been present and the change in tone of the community over recent months.

We are also moderating posting for the time being because the quality and tone of the community has been declining lately. Please be patient when posting. There are 6 mods on very different sleep schedules, so your post likely won't sit for long. Also, please consider your level of GABYAW when posting. If members of this community know more about you than their real friends, perhaps you are sharing too much. Try to stay on topic. This is neither an advice nor general knitting info community. That stuff goes in knitting or knitting_chat.

Edit: And now we have a perm. ban for bananapouch for a deleted comment. Play nice folks.

After a lot of thought, I've decided to un-ban thirdjane, based on the word of her friend, heatherlayne_n and because we don't have anything other than conjecture that she's the trolling asshole (a conclusion that more than just the moderating team came to--we asked a few people for their thoughts).

From now on, our policy regarding banination of assholes is going to require an IP address from the person who got an anonymous comment. The userinfo will be updated accordingly.

I love it when one of our own posts FOs

I'm surprised every time I see a pattern from that book knit up as the pictures in the book itself made me think they were all mostly rubbish. Here, yet again, I am most pleasantly surprised.

Well.

Someone has been very, very, very busy being an asshole.

Since thirdjane has been so busy, we've decided to relieve her of the burden of membership in knitting_snark.

Go be an asshole somewhere else. You're not welcome here.

11/15/06 EDIT: Since the link between the trolling asshole and thirdjane are tenuous at best, and because her friend heatherlayne_n has come to her defense, the banination has been reversed.

Gorgeous, clear photos and excellent notes make Sleepsong a happy snarker. I'm also a huge fan of Meg Swansen's, so bonus points for doing one of her shawls.

This was something nice to oversleep and wake up to.